Wymondham short mat bowls club is affiliated to the Norfolk Short Mat Bowls Association. The club bowls at Ketts park comumunity & recreation centre, which is situated 8 miles south west of Norwich down the A11, next to the Norfolk police headquarters.
The club has around 20 members at present and bowls throughout the year in the summer league from May till August and the winter season from October to March. Wymondham are currrently in division one for the summer league with seven other clubs and in the winter season bowl in the Breckland league which has eleven clubs at present.
Wymondham play most of their home games on a sunday afternoon and have roll-ups on a monday night. The last three season's the club has finished third in the Breckland league and look to make a stake on the top two in forthcoming season's. Wymondham now has five county players in their squad and has proved to make the team a lot more stronger and more knowledgeable of the sport in recent season's.
They have recenlty strengthened the squad with the arrival of county manger Brian Saunders and his wife Pat Saunders from the Bob Carter centre, Sylvia Archer from Diss.S.M.B.C. This has brought them much needed strength and experience.
As Wymondham plays in only one league during the winter season a number of their players, play in different leagues with different clubs. This gives the selected players more stability throughout the season with them playing against different players on different mats, which gives them more experience. Chris Mann plays for Hempnall in the South Norfolk and Tens league's. He also plays for Halvergate in the Thurne and Wensum league's along with Steve and Debbie Phillips. Brian and Pat Saunders play for Kirby Bedon in the Tens and Bure league's also.